Zax explains the complex and surprising years-long process behind the box that chronicles every minute of the festival’s music, and delves into some of the newly available sets, including Creedence Clearwater Revival’s revelatory performance. “They’re kind of remarkable,” Zax says. “They feel to me like the missing link between Eddie Cochran or Link Wray and Television. You can really hear it on the big blow up at the end of the set, this 10-minute version of ‘Suzy Q,’ which is explosive.”

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McDonald tells the tale of getting tens of thousands of people to spell out the word “fuck” in unison at the festival — a career-making moment that also got him banned from some venues. “It was just unbelievable that they allowed it to go in the movie in 1969,” he says.

Carabello, the percussionist whose playing is intercut with Carlos Santana’s during the Woodstock film‘s “Soul Sacrifice” sequence — one of the most indelible rock-movie moments ever – looks back on the then-unsigned band’s performance, and much more.